Opal Mae Coffman

Family and friends will gather to celebrate the life of Opal Coffman from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 6, 2012, at Lake Ridge Chapel and Memorial Designers. Celebration of life services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012, at Southcrest Baptist Church with committal in Resthaven Memorial Park. Our beloved Opal went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012.

She was born on Jan. 28, 1926, to the late William and Jodie (Kincannon) Boldin in Lubbock and graduated from Lubbock High School. Opal married Wilburn P. Coffman on Dec. 28, 1944, in Lubbock. Being a minister's wife, Opal served alongside her husband at many different churches and taught Sunday school for over 60 years. Opal was a member of Parkway Drive Baptist Church for many years and presently at Southcrest Baptist Church. She enjoyed playing games with family and friends. Opal was a piano teacher, an excellent seamstress and quilter.

Along with her parents, Opal was preceded in death by her husband, Wilburn, on Sept. 10, 2000; an infant brother, William "Bill" Boldin Jr.; and a sister, Wilma Meyers.

Survivors include her children, Dianne Coffman, Ronald Coffman and Amy Lindsey, and husband, Roger all of Lubbock; six grandchildren, Angela, Nick, Kasey and husband John, Korey and husband Peter, Ryan and Reid; and three great-grandsons, Alexander, Nathaniel and Pierson.